ALL this world, so l11uch stripped n. and chilled and robhed of its pe- culiar flavors in Mr. LanL's acadel11ic exercise, is hrought to life in the diaries and letters of Dalton Barhal11's l11em- oir of his father-"The Life and Let- ters of the Rev. Richard Harris Bar- hal11," with its hUl11orous rhymes and anecdotes, its practical jokes and co- nundrul11s, its ghost stories and stag dinners. (I have used the tW()- VOhl111e version puhlished in 1 R 70.) If anyone at this date should douht that the Lon- don of Dickens onCe existed, this book, the record of a writer of quite different opinions and interests frol11 IJIckens's, will confirl11 the picture left by the novelist. Though Richard Barhal11 was on good terl11S with Dickens, his politics were entirely conservatIve, and he evi- den tly did not approve of the tendencIes of l)ickens's novels; he cOl11plains of "a ')ort of Radicalish tone about 'Oliver rrwist' which I don't altogether like" (Mr. Lane seel11S to second the sug- gestion of another scholar that "the irreverent clergVl11an in Chapter V of 'Oliver TWIst' l11ay have originated in [an] underlying resent111ent." But In thIS chapter the only reference to a Upper """" .. .: Admiral Nelson clergyman is In a single brief para- .. .. · I:. was here in 1782. g ra p h which l11entlons an unnamed Deck "'1'1"": : .. Montego Bay, Jamaica cleric as skÍ111ping the burial service of a . pauper. 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